Category: 4K Drama

While engaging and evocative, Joker draws draws its protagonist with far too much empathy given the nature of this character.

A Cockroach in Miami’s Midst Scarface is both reactionary and alarmist. Oliver Stone’s screenplay slams the Carter administrations chaotic immigration policy, induces immigrant fears, this while blaming communism’s stranglehold …

Ring All the Bells George Bailey becomes a saint at one specific moment in It’s a Wonderful Life. He does many great things before – Bailey helps people afford …

Hole in the Desert The final moments of Casino show old Vegas being torn down. Implosions send once grand buildings to rubble. Sam Rothenstein (Robert De Niro) opines about …

Life Isn’t Like Your Fairy Tales At a lavish banquet, the fascist sociopath Captain Vidal verbally denigrates the rebels. Those at the table agree. Among them, a Catholic priest, …

Never Get Out of the Boat When Martin Sheen and his troops approach a bridge midway through Apocalypse Now, it looks like a Halloween theme park. Fireworks of war …

Elton John Musical Biopic Is A Wild Ride Director Dexter Fletcher, hot off his success with global smash Bohemian Rhapsody, takes an entirely different tact for the inventively surreal …

Hulking Mad Control. Everything in the Ang Lee-directed Hulk concerns control. Emotional control. Government control. A parent’s control. Memory control. It’s an interesting take on the comic book hero, …

Union Faults Before Glory’s climactic charge on a Confederate fort, star Denzel Washington speaks openly to his white superior, played by Matthew Broderick. The discussion turns to what each …

Fireball Island Universal produced Backdraft, a surprise given the Disney-esque tragedy of the intro. It’s near camp. A small child looks on, star-eyed, as his father enters a burning …

Mercy is for the Weak Watching Karate Kid for its teen drama isn’t enlightening. The scrawny new kid from out of town is bullied, he scores the blonde cheerleader, …

Chumming with the Cartel First, Earl (Clint Eastwood) just wants a new truck. Then to get his foreclosed business back. Next, to restore the VFW, an ice rink, and …